Cato Institute Research Fellow Patrick Eddington recently filed several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to find out if the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever conducted surveillance of several organizations dealing with government policy, including my...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Nine Killed; Scores Wounded in Protests
The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne
Antiwar.com Introduction by David R. Henderson Nikhil Pal Singh, a professor of social and cultural analysis and history at New York University, has written, in the New Statesman, an interesting article on Randolph Bourne, an antiwar writer during World War I after...
Iranian Influence in Iraq May Not Be a Bad Thing
If a hegemonic power wants to purportedly build a democracy and "liberate" a people, it would do well to listen to what the people say. On January 4th, the Iraqi Parliament voted for US troops to leave the country. The State Department has already rejected...
Why Assange Extradition Case Matters to Our Democracy
On Monday January 13, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court in his fight against extradition to the US. The administrative hearing concerned Assange’s lack of access to legal counsel, making it difficult for him to adequately...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Five Killed; Protests Escalate
Warmonger Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism
If you wonder what the post-Trump Republican Party will look like, take a glimpse at Tom Cotton, one of the US senators from Arkansas (where I live). Cotton has waged a relentless campaign for war against Iran and has supported every horror produced by the US...
Iraq Daily Roundup: Three Killed; Clashes at Baghdad Protest
Vladimir Putin Prepares His Succession
January 15, 2020 will be remembered as the start of the transition to a new political configuration in Russia that Vladimir Putin will leave behind when his term in office ends four years hence. The prospective changes were announced in the last third of Putin’s...
Marching Toward a New Middle East Conflict
As we march headlong into a new Middle East conflict, it is prudent to reflect on what has come before and how we found ourselves seemingly inevitably, on this path – a path cut with our own blade. On Friday, January 3rd, the US government decided to ring in the new...


